Thomas Wolfe Quote

My dear, dear girl [...] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire—a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron—which we cannot get back.


Selections (ed. 1952)


My dear, dear girl [...] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot,...

My dear, dear girl [...] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot,...

My dear, dear girl [...] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot,...

My dear, dear girl [...] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot,...